Better Study Up So You Can Get Your Government Model Airplane Builder's Permit

Or we can just fly self designed / built sub 8oz airplanes

Or is it?

I think it interesting how few Americans understand stuff like this until it DIRECTLY does or MAY impact them

The formal, ratified Constitution was very well written and deliberately limited the Federal government from these types of things.

Along the way the Supreme Court and Congress conspired to remove many of the limitations and created the Interstate Commerce Act and used other deliberately manipulated Federal case law to make the Act seem necessary. The PEOPLE were asleep and did not heed the warning of the " unintended consequences" or "slippery slope" efforts put forth by the minority opposition (Republican) at the time

From the Act spawned the other very dubious new venture...creating and empowering "Agencies". Congress knew much of this would [bleep] off some groups and insulated them selves by claiming to fight for us against "big bad bureaucracy was being supported by special interest groups" and "if you vote for me I will fight them tooth and nail"

Thus a spiral of "unintended consequences" and "slippery slope" predictions became the reality

The various Agencies have zero effective oversight from congress and were empowered with enforcement by the ACT. Every one of these Agencies leaders are NOT Elected and NEVER answer to the people
FCC
DOT/FAA
EPA
HUD
DHS
IRS
YET they have Federal Power, can make Taxes (called fees), make criminal Law and enforce it with ARMED Agents, Fines and prison time...thus we have taxation WITHOUT representation, and the LOSS OF LIBERTY or FREEDOM from legal authority with NO RECOURSE but the courts WHO conspired to create this EXTRA CONSTITUTIONAL situation

Senator Inhofe's amendment number 3596 to the FAA Re-authorization Act of 2016.
Yes we should call, e-mail, and hand write letters to each of our representatives...I have

But do not kid your self....There are over a million of us/we model airplane hobbyists

The DoT and FAA had a normal length "comment period" for the uAS new rules and only 4700 of us responded

Ha think of this

AMA....186,000 +/- members..... some Conservative, some Liberal, some Boy George, some Libertarian, and most no clue...perhaps even a few true communists

not a voting block to be afraid of

Back to the lead in..."MAY impact us"..... some how I do not think the Fed can find me and my meager attempts to build a foam or balsa model and decide that I am a great threat to the NAS, fine me, and imprison me while waiting my day with the Supreme Court

Consider this... If you were a Amateur Radio Operator you would know the FCC has for years had this same exact legislation/rule.
To this day you can still go to a truck stop gas station and buy a NON TYPE CERTIFIED radio transmitter that violates the FCC specifications for spectral purity, power output, and covered frequencies....

Yes Virginia they do occasionally crack down and fine a seller or producer...but so infrequently as to never be a problem for the purchaser/user

I'm glad I read yours all the way to the end, Fred.

Well, I'll once again follow through with a note, in as civil language as I can muster.

Fred is right that it is rare to see anybody prosecuted for violating these laws. These laws are more typically used as a catch all, meaning if the federales want you for something and can't find enough evidence to prosecute/convict you of the crime they want you for, they will pull up obscure laws like these. Look how they got Al Capone.

Yes, maybe a tempest in a tea pot but even little ideas can escalate into big problems for individual freedoms.

But this notion as outlined in Kim's post is just plain nuts. I would think that even Lenin is turning over in his hermitically sealed chamber on this one.

Congratulations Fred for being into this stuff!!!!!!

I have one thing to say about all this crap.... The government can kiss my .....

fit90 wrote:Look how they got Al Capone.

I know it's not what you meant but now I have the image in my head of this guy flying a model airplane (something big with a spark ignition engine) and getting arrested for it



And I thought we had it bad, with the new mandatory max flying altitude of 150 metres outside registered model flying sites and 50m ceiling at certain areas considered "critical".